Well, you've read the notes, you know all the news that's fit to print, and now it is time for you to post until the breaking cows come home.
And the word of the day is: VERACITY!Not to be confused with Mamecity.
Then...to work....I will try to check in later today. It is going to be HOT!!
Okay, I have a question about the movie, "High School Musical." I know that the brother and sister are the "stars" of the school and they really, really, really (that's three reallys) want to be the leads of this new musical that one of their fellow students is writing. HOWEVER, the lead characters of the musical (within the movie) are romantic leads and the songs that the other couple have been learning (that are from the musical that they are going to perform) are very romantic lovey-dovey ballads. NOW, why would the brother and sister want to play these romantic leads? Is there some kind of incestuous subtext going on? And if the brother and the sister need (for plot purposes) to be auditioning rivals for the other couple, why would the authors of the movie have the musical (within the movie) be that romantic a story??
That's all I could think about as I was watching this. Just curious.
Myspace.com is where the pedophiles look for their victims.
Oh and last night DR George wrote (about the movie):It is sort of creepy that the brother and sister want to be the romantic leads, but since it's Disney there is nothing incenestuous implied.
I can spend a fair amount of time debating the merits of the various Elphabas (or is it Elphabi) I've seen, so can I make believe I'm still in my twenties? :)
I can spend a fair amount of time debating the merits of the various Elphabas (or is it Elphabi) I've seen, so can I make believe I'm still in my twenties? :)
Hello all you people out there in the dark....I laughed out loud... I wish they had censored that last Samuel Jackson statement, because I would have played it for the Vixter without that word.
Here is a very cute take off of high school comedies called Ten Things I Hate
About Commandments.
I think there are several really good laughs in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs)
Speaking of veracity!
I keep reading Disney releases that say HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL is a bit hit and its CD soundtrack is the first television soundtrack to reach a huge number of sales....BUT in every Walmart or Target I go into....the shelves contain Dozens of the CD's! Everytime....dusty and untouched. Are they counting sales to outlets or sales to peoples?
It's like those crazy Mariah Carey numbers.....are they going to take back that platinum disk award when the remainders start coming in?
Ginny my eyes ands head got better as soon as they stopped wallpapering the hallway at work so it nmust have been the fumes that were 0causing my poorly condition
I don't believe Myspace is run by idiots, but I believe Broadwayworld.com is, since so many of them are high school naifs who think an old show is CATS and spend their days debating wonderful Elphaba performances. I can take correcton by my peers, but I refuse to let a hostile/arrogant/smug college student tell me how awful CAROUSEL is while praising the merits of this pathetic new THREEPENNY OPERA revival, especially since he or she has probably never seen a dcecent performance of either work.
But I rant.
Speaking of veracity!
I keep reading Disney releases that say HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL is a bit hit and its CD soundtrack is the first television soundtrack to reach a huge number of sales....BUT in every Walmart or Target I go into....the shelves contain Dozens of the CD's! Everytime....dusty and untouched. Are they counting sales to outlets or sales to peoples?
It's like those crazy Mariah Carey numbers.....are they going to take back that platinum disk award when the remainders start coming in?
Most kids get their music from iTunes... where "High School Musical" has been one of the top downloads for MONTHS. I'm not sure many kids buy music anymore, it's all digital.
Then...to work....I will try to check in later today. It is going to be HOT!!
Does that answer the "blog" and "myspace" question? Who in their right teen-aged, materialistic, pop-culture mind would even WANT to read these geezer musings???
DRs, my dad needs good health vibes today badly!
so I grabbed my camera ran outside and slam....the door locked behind me..... Thank heavens it was Warm out. I did see lots of birds...even a beautiful white pelican in flight. It was nice.
And where are the photos, I ask?
Wow!
(That's for the pic!)
Back from some errands.
I think in certain ways, yes, the parents of people born post 1980 have helped turn this generation into a spoiled, entitled, immature, overprotected bunch of fools (obviously, that's a general statement and there are exceptions). But, it's also the Internet in general, MTV, reality TV, films, all accentuating the amateur, the need to be connected twenty-four hours a day, the need that to be cool you have to be a slut (and that goes for men and women), the complete ignorance of what words really mean, and basically having to put a minus ten years on their age to realize what their emotional maturity is, age-wise.
Just atking abreif break. So far cooked a "full English" breakfast for Vixdad and myself, cleaned up , did a couple of loads of laundrey, did some shopping, drove the Vixter to the Dr for a camp physical, weeded all the flower beds and planted three flats of flowers, washed my car.
I think I am going to have a little sirdown now and rest.
Breaking News: Tomorrow I will meet FJL IN PERSON!!!!!!!!!!
Back from some errands.
I think in certain ways, yes, the parents of people born post 1980 have helped turn this generation into a spoiled, entitled, immature, overprotected bunch of fools (obviously, that's a general statement and there are exceptions). But, it's also the Internet in general, MTV, reality TV, films, all accentuating the amateur, the need to be connected twenty-four hours a day, the need that to be cool you have to be a slut (and that goes for men and women), the complete ignorance of what words really mean, and basically having to put a minus ten years on their age to realize what their emotional maturity is, age-wise.
Turned out to be a hot dog kind of day
You see!! A society that offers PET TAXIS is a doomed society!
We seem to care more for pets than for children!
So sad!
Of course, you get to know someone who knew someone who knew Jerome Robbins, BUT kids would say "Jerome Who??!".
I had once Michael Kidd's son at "my" hotel but it thrilled no one at this here site! So..... (I'm so vain!!) 8)
Hmmmm.... he can't walk down the stairs yet though!! :-\ ;)
what color is your new oven and stove DR Laura?
My thought are with you, Larry.
RANT coming.... Okay - as much as I have gotten impatient, annoyed and angry at my share of teenagers in my day (and will continue to do so, I'm sure) -- I think we're doing a huge disservice both to the kids and to ourselves by painting an entire generation ("with some exceptions") with the silly, immature, stupid, etc. brush.
It's easy to put labels on these kids and shake our heads in disgust. But, come on folks, WE'RE the adults. Let's look beneath the surface. Let's assume that if we got to know some of these "immature cretins" there might be something more there.
I lived near Columbine at the time of those horrible events. My daughter's school was the sister school of Columbine. The way these kids (from her school) behaved following that tragedy really opened my eyes to so many things. They rose to the occasion, they had character, they had depth. Yes - depth. Kids I had been writing off as - well, as all of the things named in previous posts - suddenly exhibited dignity, leadership, strength. Okay, this was an isolated incident, certainly not, thank goodness, typical. But I cite it because it taught me a lesson. It's too easy to write teenagers off. They make it easy for us. But let's be better than that. These are hard times to live in. Particularly when you have no real control over your life. Sure they act out. Sure they can be obnoxious. But they're still young, Very young. And - as I said - we're the adults.
I'm going to stop preaching now. And, believe me, I can be as intolerant and unreasonable as the best of them. Ask my DD about the time I threw all her loud teen friends out of the house. So it's no saint speaking here. But, I find it unsettling to hear so many kind and reasonable people (that's YOU, DRs) not looking past the surface -- unattractive as that surface can be.
End of Rant.
As I recall my grandma told me that her mom thought dancing the Charleston was something only bad kids did.
In turn my grandma was horrified that teenage girls of the 40s would dare to wear high heeled shoes with ankle straps.
And of course rock and roll was certainly the work of the devil.
;)
Breaking News: Tomorrow I will meet FJL IN PERSON!!!!!!!!!!
DR Maria, it sounds like your DD is an exception and that is wonderful.
Thanks to Disneyland, The Sun Never Sets on the Song "It's a Small World (After All)"
I should think I would not want to be a young person today. But then, I didn't want to be a young person when I was a young person, because I didn't care for most other young people.
"Empowering" - another nauseating catchphrase which most people don't understand at all, certainly one young person I know particularly abuses that particular word. It's right up there with "inappropriate" in my list of words I loathe.
And we ARE discussing this in a civilized manner - if we weren't you'd all know it very quickly.
Ginny I want a milkshake now.
I have to say that my experience with the kids I know who are in their teens and early twentys is very close to what BK is describing and I find it extremely disturbing. I agree that this generation CAN rise to the occasion and I agree that there are exceptions. No doubt about that, but it isn't what I've seen either at work or through the kids I know. Just my 2 cents.....btw congrats DR Maria, it sounds like your DD is an exception and that is wonderful.
Obituary for Henry Bumstead (http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-bumstead27may27,1,6871312.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california)
Except for a few medical sites, including pets, this is the only one I have read, and the only one I have posted on.
The medical sites can be very useful & most everyone is there to share information & be helpful.
But then, I didn't want to be a young person when I was a young person, because I didn't care for most other young people.
I like to see good improvisation however i will pass on nascar....
I'm wounded, bk...do I not rank up there with Maria's DD and TPunk as less-than-crude members of my generation? I assure you, there are no thongs in my underwear drawer...
LOL, I just saw the guy who won the championship for eating over a gallon of ice cream in some ungodly short period of time. He was standing with his arms in the air and looked like he was about to get SOOOO sick. Why do people do these things to themselves?